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Hi all,
Looking for good and safe towns in Central Jersey with easy commute to NY Penn Station. Preferably towns with an NJ transit train station (around an hour or so commute would be nice) and good parks , preschools etc for the kid.
Thanks a lot..
Last edited by LauraPetrie; 08-12-2008 at 01:34 PM..
I'm guessing you mean Central Jersey? Like Mercer, Monmouth and southern Middlesex? South Jersey is the Philadelphia suburbs, Atlantic City, Cape May, etc.
Hi all,
Looking for good and safe towns in South Jersey with easy commute to NY Penn Station. Preferably towns with an NJ transit train station (around an hour or so commute would be nice) and good parks , preschools etc for the kid.
Thanks a lot..
Moorestown and Mount Laurel in Burlington County are about an hour and 35 minutes to Penn Station from Hamilton Train Station off 295 North - if you leave early. Camden County - forget about NYC, it's Philly only.
South Jersey will not get you to Manhattan in an hour. The furthest south you would be able to go is Mercer Co. - particularly the Hamilton area. There is an express NJ transit that will get you to Penn station in about an hour.
If you truly are looking into South Jersey than Moorestown or Mount Laurel would be the only "reasonable" commutes to NYC. You can catch a greyhound bus which gets you to the NY Port Authority in 1hr 40min during rush hour.
At 1 hour to 1:20 commute to Penn Station that would put you around Trenton, Hamilton or Princeton Junction stations or, on the other side of the state Hazlet, Middletown, Red Bank, Little Silver and Long Branch.
The fast ferry services from the Bayshore are pretty good and much more pleasant than riding the trains. I used to commute from Allenhurst to Wall St. via the Higlands ferry every morning and that trip took about 1:15. Highlands, Atlantic Highlands, Belford and Keyport all have ferry terminals. Some of the trips go to midtown, some go downtown.
I agree, it's not something I would do for long but people in Moorestown do it. I did 78miles one way on the NJTP to GSP to 78 to 24 for a year and that was more than enough.
And sorry for the confusion, I did mean Central jersey, just edited my post !
So far Hamilton sounds good to me..
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